Tuesday

Tuesday - a week after last Tuesday.

I'm sat here at my desk listening to a playlist I made for a friend a couple months ago with the sun coming through my window, which is fabulous, yet outside it isn't as nice as it first seems, there is a very chilly breeze. 

This past week has flown by, I can't believe we're already on the last day of April.

On Saturday I popped into Bath for a trip to the Cinema to see Iron Man 3, which as a Marvel enthusiast, I was very much looking forward to, however I knew that it probably wouldn't be a masterpiece, and I think I was right, but saying that it was a full on, action packed, and a very enjoyable movie. I certainly was not disappointed. 

I have linked in the trailer here because it's the best I can do - I'd definitely recommend it if you want an enjoyable evening. 

I'm not very good at the whole reviewing thing, so I'm just telling you that I went and enjoyed it, so you probably will too!

Going to Sunday, Daft Punk had their first UK Number 1 with 'Get Lucky' ft. Pharrell Williams, and Daughter have done this beautiful cover of it, for Radio 1, but if you've not heard it then look no further!

I'm really digging the whole of Daughter's debut album 'If You Leave' - released in March of this year - I find it most relaxing and gentle, just an altogether beautiful piece of work. 

It certainly gives Palma Violets '14' a run for its money as my favourite album of the year so far, although I'm imagining these may both be trumped by the arrival of Daft Punk's new album next month.

In this past week I've also gone for three cycle rides - only 10 miles each - but they have been fabulous. I've been trying to cut my time down from around 45 minutes to less that 40, which I feel like I will be able to do in a few tries.

On yesterdays ride I cut over 2 minutes off my personal best (down to around 42.5 minutes) so I'm confident of success. I'm also looking to do some longer rides when I get a chance - probably somewhere between 20 and 30 miles. I look forward to these days.

I'm running out of time for today, so I'll sign off now. 

T'ra x

Further happiness

So after the throng of Record Store Day, Monday came along, and where else to go but the record shop, for two reasons, firstly to check out any new releases, and secondly, on this particular day to have another rummage through any left over Record Store Day items, of which there were a few.

Firstly I found one of these, which I thought was worth a punt.

MYSTERY RELEASE

MYSTERY 7''

7'' - Red with Blue Splatter Vinyl

After I bought this, I merely enquired as to whether they had any of the Funeral For A Friend LPs left in either of their other stores, Bath and Warminster, to which the answer was no, but they had some more due in on Tuesday, so I popped back and now I'm a proud owner of 'Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation'.

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND

CASUALLY DRESSED & DEEP IN CONVERSATION

Double LP - White Vinyl - Limited to 500

A 1.Rookie Of The Year/2.Bullet Theory/3.Juneau
B 4.Bend Your Arms To Look Like Wings/5.Escape Artists Never Die/6.Storytelling
C 7.Moments Forever Faded/8.She Drove Me To Daytime Television/9.Red Is The New Black
D 10.Your Revolution Is A Joke/11.Waking Up/12.Novella

I am thrilled to pieces with all I bought and I shall enjoy them many times over.

In a bit folks.

Record Store Day - April 20th 2013

So yesterday was the sixth annual Record Store Day, the 4th time I'd attended in as many years, and it was just a great, if not better, as all the previous!

I arrived bright and early, somewhere around 6am, to Raves From The Grave in Frome, to find that I was the first to arrive, which I was slightly surprised by, but nevertheless I was please to be first as to hopefully get my hands on some super limited records!

 Around 6.30am, the stragglers started to arrive, and by 7am there were around half a dozen people or so, with a number of people who I'd not seen since last years event. 

 Fast forward a couple hours of discussing music with many people in the queue, plus free coffee and bacon rolls supplied by the cafe next door and a queue about 35-40 people strong, 9am arrived and the doors opened for the grabbing of rare and precious records which as per previous years, slight chaos ensued! 

 30 minutes later I came out of crowd and felt somewhat victorious, I had managed to get all that I had on my list, plus a couple of other items that I fell upon by chance and felt were worthy purchases!

 After this I popped to a cafe just up the road with a fellow Record Store Day-er for some much needed coffee and a good old chat, after which we headed back to Raves From The Grave and picked up a couple more bits as the storm had calmed and browsing became more possible.

I'm now listening to all these one by one, and I've thoroughly enjoyed all I've heard so far, below are all that I bought.

CONNAN MOCKASIN

LIVE AT LA CIGALE, PARIS 25TH MARCH 2012

12'' - Black Vinyl

A 1.Unicorn In Uniform/2.It's Choade My Dear/3.Quadropuss Island B 4.Forever Dolphin Love

CHAPEL CLUB

GOOD TOGETHER ALBUM SAMPLER

12'' - Picture Disc

A 1.Sleep Alone/2.Jenny Baby B 3.Scared/4.Good Together

THE XX

JAMIE XX EDITS

12'' - Black Vinyl

A 1. unset B 2.Reconsider 

TOY / THE HORRORS

(RECORD STORE DAY RELEASE)

12'' - Black Vinyl

A TOY - Motoring (Tom Furse Extraploration)
B The Horrors - Moving Further Away (Dom and Ale TOY remix)

DJANGO DJANGO

HI DJINX DJANGO DJANGO REMIXED

Double LP - Black Vinyl

A 1.Hail Bop (Django's Bail Hop Edit)/2.Default (Tom Furse Remix)/3.Firewater (Nick McCarthy Drunk Remix)
B 4.Waveforms (Micky Moonlight Remix)/5.Zumm Zumm (DJ Mujava Pitori Remix)/6.Hand Of Man (Gulp Version)
C 7.Love's Dart (Rude Pravo Version)/8.Wor (Adrian Sherwood's Hey Gringo Remix)/9.Storm (Andy Wake's Lunar Storm Version)
D 10.Life's A Beach (Steve Mason's Priests Of Sound Remix)/11.Skies Over Cairo (Bullion Version)/12.Silver Rays (Chris Carter Remix)

SIGUR ROS
HVARF/HEIM

Double LP - Blue & Green Vinyl

HVARF - A 1.Salka/2.Hljómalind/3.Í Gær B 4.Von/5.Hafsól
HEIM A 1.Samskeyt/2.Starálfur/3.Vaka B 4.Ágætis byrjun/5.Heysátan/6.Von

PEACE
CALIFORNIA DAZE
7'' - Picture Disc

A 1.California Daze

 METRONOMY
PIP PAINE (PAY THE £5000 YOU OWE)
Double LP - Black Vinyl

A 1.You Could Easily Have Me/2.Love Song For Dog/3.Danger Song/4.This Could Be Beautiful (It Is)
B 5.Black Eye/Burnt Thumb/6.Peter's Pan/7.Trick Or Treatz/8.The 3rd
C 9.1 String Strung/10.Bearcan/11.How Say
D 12.Are Mums Mates/13.In The D.O.D/14.Hear To Wear/15.Another Me To Mother You

FOALS
MY NUMBER
7'' - Black Vinyl

A 1.My Number
B 2.Bluebird

That is the last of the items I bought, so plenty of listening to do, and a whole bunch of lovely records for my collection, with hopefully many more in the future.

As much as I enjoyed this day, I just hope all the people who showed up just for Record Store Day return regularly and support their local, and independent record shop, however I have this sad feeling that many people will not.

Time for me to finish off here, I hope all involved with Record Store Day had a blast, and will take part again in the years to come.

Thanks to Raves From The Grave for participating and, of course, being wonderful all year long.

Peace out.